European Ceramic Society
We are a non-governmental, nonprofit federation of national ceramic societies each representing the ceramists of a member country.
ECerS was established in 1987 in order to co-ordinate and promote the study of ceramics and in particular :
- To encourage education, training and research.
- To consult with and bring together individuals and representatives of members, research establishments, academic bodies and institutions of governments and other bodies including the Commission of the European Community.
- To collect, disseminate and exchange information with other organizations
- To promote planning, promotion and organization of conferences and meetings
- To procure planning, printing, publication and circulation of technical papers,
Conferences calendar
08/25 - XIX ECerS Conference - Dresden 2025
The XIXth Conference and Exhibition of the European Ceramic Society will take place from August 31 to September 4, 2025 at the International Congress Center in Dresden, Germany.
08/25 - ECerS-FIRE Summer School
The school entitled "Mining the future of refractories and high temperature materials: the impact of sustainability, AI, computing tools and advanced techniques" will be organized at IKTS, Dresden, Germany, the week before the next ECerS conference, from Thursday 28 to Friday 29 August 2025.
09/25 - 14th CASC Summer School in Ceramics
The 14th edition of the CASC Summer school on ceramics is scheduled for the 8-10th of September 2025 and will take place at the Royal School of Mines in London
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
Funding Opportunities
JECS Trust
The JECS Trust sponsors activities or conferences involving a collaboration between different European Ceramic Society member countries, involving student/early ...
Frontiers of Research
Open to early stage researchers of the countries affiliated to ECerS, the proposal aims to promote frontier research in the field of materials, devices ...
ECerS office
Av. Gouverneur Cornez , 4
7000 Mons
Belgium